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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 25276113, member: 91820&quot;]P.S. Naturally, it went for -with buyers fee - over $4200 - it has one of the most beautiful portraits of Septimius Severus.&nbsp; Oddly enough, there is a provincial city that struck amazingly beautiful portraits of Septimius.&nbsp; It is in or around the Balkans I think.&nbsp; I had received some of these from my supplier back when I had a supplier and the coins were wonderful. How I wish I had kept them!&nbsp; As for sestertii from the 199 to 209 period I intend to keep looking - I pin my hopes on events like the Geta as Caesar sestertius with a reverse consisting of priestly objects that was sold about 20 or so years ago to a lucky buyer for under $300, or the Geta as Caesar sestertius that appeared out of nowhere on ebay which I found early in the morning and immediately purchased for an affordable price - my one and only sestertius of Geta as caesar, and the only one I have ever seen offered on ebay other than the tooled horror.&nbsp; Nice to have a goal I guess, but only about 12 examples sold anywhere in all these years - but I will keep looking. </p><p><br /></p><p>Since purchasing three coins in 20 years would be a ridiculous way to collect, my interest now is rare and interesting sestertii, the whole field - I just purchased an affordable sestertius of Postumus, with Jupiter on the reverse looking backward - apparently one of only a handful known, although for some reason it is only listed as &quot;scarce&quot; in RIC.&nbsp; This interest was inspired by a comment from Curtis Clay about interesting sestertii, and I have given it a lot of thought.&nbsp; Today a common coin in high grade generates much more interest than an extremely rare coin in poor grade - although one could argue that high grade coins are always extremely rare too.&nbsp; The first catalogs I ever looked at were CNG&#039;s from the early 2000&#039;s where you could find extremely rare coins in wonderful condition - still can I am sure but I no longer get the catalogs.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any event, I also managed to find a semi-affordable sestertius of the wife of Didius Julianus in so so condition - rare but not excessively so - 132 or thereabouts sold since 1999 on acsearch.info.&nbsp; Yes I know it is rude not to post photographs, which I will do.&nbsp; Also isn&#039;t it amazing that a coin that has appeared only 132 times or so in major auctions since 1999 would be considered as &quot;not excessively rare.&quot; ok enough of these mutterings.&nbsp; I really love this hobby![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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